Thursday, April 05, 2012

Sunday, April 01, 2012

The power of medicineThis moment when you are talking casually to a patient and he suddenly arrests in front of you. Yes he dies. You find yourself alone in a closed room. You and a dead patient.

Not the kind they wake you up at night for in order to do a flat ECG.Not the kind you expected to pass away and you now lay at rest.

No this one is young enough to die on you without any warning.This one is talking to you, telling you how he just dropped his daughter off at AUB and he decided to pass by the ER for mild discomfort.And there he goes. Sudden arrhythmia throws him into the tunnel. And you start pumping. Because that is what you do best.10 seconds later the rest of the team arrives with a defibrillator and the patient is saved.

30 minutes later you glance into the room to find his daughter kissing him, crying. She doesn't know that he arrested.She doesn't know that had she been 5 minutes late in the morning her father would most probably have died in his car.She knows she's hugging him again.And she loves him...

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

And the priest and priestesses said unto him:Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory.You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces.Much have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been veiled.Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and would stand revealed before you. And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.